Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose successes have not distorted his perspective, held up a restraining hand to 40,000 cheering, liberated American prisoners, and said: "Say, I'm just a G.I., not a movie star." (Ike's response to an ovation in a London theater: "I wonder if you people realize what it means to me to be back here among friends, among people whose language I can almost speak...
...Hitler's death G.I.s in France were reading about the end of this great double-crosser in the issue of TIME which had Hitler crossed out on the cover. "Christmas, Mac," said one soldier in Paris when he picked up the May 7 issue on May 5, "I wonder if this issue's out in the States...
After Twelve Years. But time had worked for TVA. In twelve years it had become one of the wonders of the New World, and a pride of the South. In the beginning it had been something from outside, alien: a plan for dams, turbines, reforestation, agricultural improvement, and who knew what else, flung like a Technocrat's nightmare across the sacred boundaries of seven states. Dave Lilienthal was simply another of Felix Frankfurter's young men from the Harvard Law School, a New Deal wonder boy who had fought utility companies. But as the dams rose...
...father has been out in the Pacific for about 15 months. In three months he is due home. I wonder what the first day home will be like. This is how I think it will...
Everything in radio, Fred Allen once said, is as fleeting as a butterfly's cough. One exception he might have made is the work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of book publication (13 by Corwin; More by Corwin). Last week Corwin did it again. His full-hour V-E day program, On a Note of Triumph, had a Sunday repeat performance, and in book form, without too much ballyhoo, was selling so fast that Publishers Simon & Schuster rushed...